Category: ideas

Not that currency is the ultimate goal of an idea. Money tends to be a byproduct of great ideas. The more impactful the idea, the more people are drawn to it.

However, great ideas don’t always have to create billion dollar companies. (So I guess the title of this blog doesn’t quite work.) Ideas are change-makers. Even a small idea that personally changes your life for the better is a powerful thing. Idea’s are also force-multipliers — ideas inspire other ideas. One idea that changes your life has the potential to influence my life too.

Of course, the big difference between money and ideas is you can save and invest your money and money compounds, but you can’t save your ideas. We can give them, use them or lose them.

What do you do when you have to start over?

What do you do when you need a fresh start?

Dear Creative Like Me,

Whenever I purchase a new notebook, everything feels so fresh and clean. Each blank page has the potential to be my next great idea (such a bragger). A song, business idea, design, personal insight, or blog post (much like this one I hope). But then my jumbled thoughts and multi-disciplined life grabs its messy hands on it. I jump from one thing to the next. Sometimes I’ll leave a great thought on a nearly blank page unfinished. (dun tun dahhhh)

The mess itself doesn’t bother me (… too much 🙂

It’s the fear that my ideas will never leave the notebook. Ideas trapped in another book of ‘what ifs’ and ‘maybe somedays’ on a shelf gathering dust.

Your ideas are the path to your best-self, but if they only exist in your notebook or head, do they even exist at all?

Ideas are meant to be shared.

Ideas are meant to be made.

Ideas are meant to be challenged.

And ideas have an expiration date.

It’s okay if you have to start over. Sometimes you must step back before you can step forward.

We all need a fresh start sometimes.

A fresh starts can be exciting if you look at them the right way. Instead of a past mistake or failed attempt, you have a clean page, a new today.

A fresh start begins by pausing —

Seeing what’s working and what’s not, what needs improvement and what whale fails that need to be avoid in the future.

After all, life is a series of fresh starts, big and small, don’t you think?

Growing up, endless summers, high school, college, first apartment, falling in love, finding fulling work.. everything is a new beginning. Every day is a new chance to be someone better than the last.

Fresh starts are what The Renaissance Life is about.

I personally don’t want to be old and grey before I live a live of creativity and boldness.

No, I must start today. I must make each day a fresh start. I must push through any fear I face.

And when I am old and grey, I hope to remember that fresh starts never end, and are ultimately what life is about. If future me is reading this, I hope you look at my struggles and pursuits fondly and see a life well-lived. And remember old man, it’s never to late to turn the page.

Grab a fresh page and take action on your new life today.

Then do it again the next today.

Keep Pursuing,

— Josh Waggoner

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“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”

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